Compound for spraying fruit-trees.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. HERRING, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

I COMPOUND FOR SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31, 1907.

Application filed August 8. 1907. Serial No, 387,666.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. HERRING,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Compounds for Spraying P ruit-Trees; and I do declare the following to be a-full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved composition to be sprayed or otherwise applied to fruit trees for curing blight and for destroying scale insects.

' The object of the invention is to provide a 'cheap and efficient compound which will effectually do the work with few applications Land with little danger to the trees.

I In this connection it is well to say thatit is preferable to use the compound before the trees have started to bear, or bloom, or after they 1 have borne their fruit.

Briefly stated, the invention consists in combining suitable portions of sodium chlorid with corrosive sublimate' and mercuric sulfid, the latter being obtained '.by' intimately mixing flowers of sulfur and metallic mercury. The above ingredients are held in temporary suspension in, say five hundred to five thousand partsof water, according to circumstances and conditions.

tel 500 to 5000 The ingredients above named are thoroughly sprayed or otherwise applied to the trees for curingblight and for destroying scale insects,

' In producing the compound I take one A composition for spraying fruit trees con= sisting of a'mixture of sodium chlorid, 1' part mercuric sulfid, 2.3 parts; corrosive sublimate, parts; sulfur, 7 tenths part, and waparts.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set .my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

CHARLES J. HERRING.

Witnesses: J. H. BURnE'r,

E. B. CRENsHAW. 

